circumstantiality

Example Sentences

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Notwithstanding the gravity and circumstantiality of these charges, Bessie Roy marvellously escaped the allotted doom, and was pronounced innocent.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

Then with the painstaking circumstantiality of two old schoolmates luxuriating in memories, we talked over the tobacco-tag craze which swept through our school one winter.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

There is, however, a strange story, told with much circumstantiality, which gives an elaborate but incomprehensible account of a tragic underplot in connection with him.

From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by Gerard, John

Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its circumstantiality.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Then followed a description of the process, narrated with horrible circumstantiality.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred